Sharing Beatrice A Luna To Her Stepbrothers by Alexis Dee

70-Not So Innocent!

I have been in my room thinking about what happened between Helel and me last night. Now that it was slowly start- ing to sink in, I was beginning to understand what I lost last night. It wasn’t a problem for me, but my mother would be very angry when she found out about it.

However, it is not like I am ever going to tell her anything. She would never find out. Now that I have tasted freedom, the idea of answering someone’s burning questions doesn’t seem too desirable to me. I wanted to live freely now. It is not like I didn’t want to ever see my mother, but I wanted her to not control me too much.

“What happens if I don’t take the pills for too long?” I asked myself that question, holding the pill bottle in my hand and staring at it. I was resting in the bed, my arms stretched out and the bottle in the air.

“Would it be okay to let my wolf transition once?” I tried to convince myself to transition, but then I remembered how wrong it could go if he tracked my scent.

“No! I must not make that mistake,” I said to myself and sat up in bed. Without wasting another minute, I took the pill and calmed down.

Now that I have decided to not mess up my routine, I planned to meet Helel and see what he was up to. It really shocked me when I walked out of the room and found the mansion empty. I don’t know how long I have been in my room, but it certainly hasn’t been years.

“Now where the heck is everyone?” I sighed. Taking a quick peek inside the kitchen and finding no one there didn’t help my anxiety. I kept wandering around until my eyes trav-eled to the hallway and the light emitting from the room at the end.

home,” I whispered, proceeding to walk in that direction and probably have

the distance between the library and me decreased, I began to feel uneasy. The air was beginning to feel eerily vi- brant. I walked closer and peered inside to see

in my chest when I found Gwen checking through the shelves.

instantly marched in- side, and when I raised my voice to

jumped and pulled away from the shelf was itself a sign

taking little strides around while trying to calm herself down.

folding my arms across my chest and making dead eye contact

she turned around to me and smiled

see! I got a book from him, and now I cannot find it.” She giggled a lit- tle, shrugging her shoulders

permission before walking into his study like that?” I kept interrogating her and

I thought it was just a library,” she sighed, lowering her head to sound genuinely disappointed in herself. Some- thing was way off about her, and I wasn’t thinking like that, only because I was jealous of her. I just got bad

go back to my room now,” she said, and she tried bolting past me when

ing hysterically. Her actions were very random and suspicious. The calm and collective Gwen was nowhere to

I said as I walked past her and into her bedroom ahead of her. She was following me

in the room, but this time she wasn’t laughing or looking hys- terical. In fact,

stated as I pointed at the book resting near the windowsill. It was amazing how she couldn’t see the book in